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Andrew Mckee
February 25, 2012 at 11:17 pm in reply to: Is native prores stable enough to edit feature film? Or should we go dnxhd?

AMAing prores QTs into Avid and then consolidating to create MXF files is gonna take twice as much disk space. If prores QTs are useful elsewhere in the workflow why not create them from the camera so that you have them, but then transcode in Avid to DNxHD36 and use that for the offline. You can always link back to the full Prores footage and you have it all to send to AE etc.

Andrew McKee
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Andrew Mckee
February 18, 2012 at 8:52 am in reply to: avid media composer

Try deleting the MDB and PMR files and see if Avid rescans the disks and recreates them.

Andrew McKee
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Andrew Mckee
February 18, 2012 at 8:50 am in reply to: linking old mxf media to new empty project / making new master clips

So long as the MXF files are in the correct place (root/Avid MediaFiles/MXF/(number)) then you can just import the MDB file from the folder they are in, and they will all show up in the bin.

Andrew McKee
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Apple Certified Trainer – FCPX
Pixelwizard.net
Andrew Mckee
February 17, 2012 at 3:04 pm in reply to: Avid – This file format (File Name) is not supported for Import

This happens with quicktime files, wavs, mp3s etc? Or just AVI?

Andrew McKee
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Andrew Mckee
February 16, 2012 at 9:55 pm in reply to: Function similar to clip enable

You could create an effect template that has 0 opacity and just apply that to a clip to disable it. Any effect in the Blend catagory should work fine.

Andrew McKee
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Apple Certified Trainer – FCPX
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Andrew Mckee
February 15, 2012 at 11:19 pm in reply to: How to send MC Seq clips to After FX??

I use Automatic Duck (which is now free) to get my sequences over. However, it utilizese QT Refs, so its a bit worrying that you cannot get a QT ref to work in After Effects. So long as Avid (or the Avid codecs) are installed on the same machine, AE should have no problem with your Avid QT ref. What is the exact error you are getting in AE?

Andy

Andrew McKee
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Andrew Mckee
February 14, 2012 at 9:43 am in reply to: Exporting to quicktime (Yet another former FCP user)

If you tick native dimensions it actually just takes whatever you put in the dimensions box. Rather than the actual native dimensions of source, i think its refering to the native dimensions of the exported file.

SD is natively 720×576 and then it is stretched a little to make it 4:3 @ 768×576 or stretched alot to make it 16:9 @ 1024×576 when you play in on a TV screen. These are PAL values, and I can’t remember the NTSC ones off the top of my head and they are different. So to play it back on a computer display its best to just make the file natively the correct value for either 4:3 or 16:9.

Andrew McKee
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Avid Certified Instructor – MC5.5
Apple Certified Trainer – FCPX
Pixelwizard.net
Andrew Mckee
February 13, 2012 at 2:22 pm in reply to: Exporting to quicktime (Yet another former FCP user)

There are some wierd funtions in quicktime designed to correct for a different pixel aspect ratios, but they are flaky at best, and this is what Avid is using here. To avoid this, make sure to type a true 16:9 square pixel resolution in the dimensions boxes (1024×576,1280×720,1920×1080 etc) and then just tick the native dimensions button for display aspect ratio rather than choosing 16:9 or 4:3.

Andrew McKee
Editor/Colourist
Avid Certified Instructor – MC5.5
Apple Certified Trainer – FCPX
Pixelwizard.net
Andrew Mckee
February 12, 2012 at 3:19 pm in reply to: Import spanned AVCHD MC 5.0

The best way would be to upgrade to MC6, which has AMA support for AVCHD. But if that isn’t an option then importing is the only way. Using none spanned clips I have never ran into any problems importing at one quality, editing and then batch importing at a higher quality. I believe Clipwrap (https://www.divergentmedia.com/clipwrap/features) is the way to go for spanned clips. I think it can combine spanned clips into one, very quickly without a generation of comression, but I’ve never used.

Andrew McKee
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Apple Certified Trainer – FCPX
Pixelwizard.net
Andrew Mckee
February 6, 2012 at 11:12 pm in reply to: DLSR “Highest” Resolution / Workflow

This question depends on what version of Media Composer you are using. On version 5, if you imported QT files then you could not then link back to them via AMA and if you linked via AMA then you could not then import them. However, this was fixed in V5.5 (I think). So, assuming you are on 5.5 or 6, what I reccomend you do is this;

Link to all your QT media in one bin via AMA then select all the footage in that bin. Then right click on your sequence in it’s bin, chooes relink and select “relink to selected items in open bins”. Based on the source file name and timecode (in this case they will all start at 00:00:00:00), it should relink to your original files. The you can transcode your sequence.

I doubt you will see a visible difference between the 115 and 175 when coming from low bitrate media. However, uncompressing and recompressing media ALWAYS results in a loss of some data and the less compressed the target codec is, the less data you will loose. I would say this will only make a difference if you are planning on doing compositing later or have many more steps of uncompression and recompression later in you’re workflow.

Andrew McKee
Editor/Colourist
Avid Certified Instructor – MC5.5
Apple Certified Trainer – FCPX
Pixelwizard.net

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